chair jeffries: thank you, congresswoman sheila jackson lee. i want to thank my other colleagues in government, their presence and their fierceness on the cause of justice has been a breath of fresh air. we are thank full for them. to tony and to tiffany and to dr. alexander. we appreciate your presence and your thoughtfulness in the way you have laid things out as we move forward through this twin storm the public health crisis of covid-19 as well as the storm of injustice that continues to engulf our community. i want to think those of you who have joined this town hall meeting. there will be others as we move forward. this is a long march to justice. but we will not abandon course or change course. until we are able to accomplish the mission. the twin pillars of our democracy are protest on the one hand and voting on the other. protests, embodied in the constitution, our freedom of the speech, our freedom of assembly and our freedom of expression. the freedom to petition authority, is in the dna of the country. then, of course, voting, as pa